Hostile Takeover: How Islam Obstructs Progress and Threats Society

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Thilo Sarrazin (2009)

Hostile Takeover: How Islam Hinders Progress and Threats Society is the title of a non-fiction book by Thilo Sarrazin published in 2018 .

background

Thilo Sarrazin is a German economist , politician and SPD member. In the book Hostile Takeover: How Islam Hinders Progress and Threats Society , the author treats the subject of Islam , as he did in his book Germany Abolishes Itself . Sarrazin's arguments critical of Islam resemble the core statements of the first Islamic debate of the 19th century, which began with the famous speech by Ernest Renan and which had a major impact on the relationship between modernity and Islam. The thesis of the creeping “Islamization” of Europe through the “demographic factor” - the constant increase in the Muslim population in Christian European countries - was advocated in 2004 by the Italian-Lebanese bestselling author Oriana Fallaci in her book The Power of Reason . The book had a circulation of over 800,000 copies in Italy and led to much controversy.

Sarrazin's book was published on August 30, 2018 by FinanzBook Verlag of the Munich publishing group . In the 37th calendar week in 2018 the title was immediately ranked one of the " mirror - Bestseller List " and is now already available in the 3rd edition.

content

The key messages of the 496-page book can be summed up as follows:

  • The majority of Muslims in Germany follow a conservative view of Islam. Only a minority of Muslims practice a liberal Islam .
  • “Conservative Islam” (here Sarrazin does not differentiate between religious beliefs in Islam) is against free thinking, equality , birth control, economic success and integration .
  • Islamic countries are lagging behind in terms of economy, education, culture and democracy compared to Western countries . This is due to the fact that a conservative Islam is practiced there. “Submission” is a political principle in all Islamic countries. Other religions would be pushed into private niches or persecuted.
  • The Muslims worldwide have an above-average birth rate . Sarrazin sees the “oppressed woman” as the central factor in this “ demographic explosion”. In addition, the majority of migrants who come to Europe are Muslims.
  • In Germany, 8% of the population is currently Muslim. 15% of the children under five come from Muslim families. Based on this, Sarrazin calculates that by 2050 14% of the European population would be Muslim. By then, 20% of the German population would be Muslim.
  • People of the Muslim faith are less well integrated than people from Eastern European and Asian countries. This is due to the size of Muslim groups, the isolationist tendencies, the backwardness and the intolerance of conservative Islam.
  • As a practical consequence, Sarrazin demands, among other things, the abolition of state religious instruction (including the Islamic one), the fight against a parallel justice system , which he perceives in this way, and a “demystification” of integration policy, e.g. B. by banning the headscarf in schools, the removal of supposedly false incentives in social policy and transparency in reporting on Muslims with regard to their school performance levels.

public perception

Legal action against the Random House publishing group

Thilo Sarrazin has already published several books, including Germany abolishing itself , at the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt . This is part of the Random House publishing group . When the publishing house refused to publish his new book Feindlichehaben , Thilo Sarrazin sued the publishing group for more than 800,000 euros for alleged character assassination . Rainer Dresen , chief legal officer of the publishing house, admitted a false statement. The claim that Sarrazin refused to have his work examined by an expert is incorrect. Sarrazin had previously proven otherwise.

reception

A first review of this text, in which Sarrazin was found to be factual errors, such as an incorrect number of the Koran suras , was published on the day of publication by the Freiburg scholar of Islam, Johanna Pink, in der Zeit .

Ulrich von Schwerin describes Sarrazin's question in the Stuttgarter Zeitung as legitimate, but his remarks as a “distorted image”. On the one hand, Sarrazin acknowledges that the Koran is “complex, ambiguous and difficult to interpret”, but then presumes “to summarize it in a few sentences, disregarding the historical context”. His faulty overall presentation reveals “an almost malicious urge to deny the Muslims everything positive.” The denial of the existence of an Islamic architecture or the denial of any artistic achievement is “of astonishing ignorance and narrow-mindedness”. Sarrazin is not at all interested in solutions to existing problems. He is about "strict separation of peoples" and a "migration stop for Muslims".

Sonja Zekri attests to Sarrazin in the Tages-Anzeiger " Herrenmenschen think" that his "primitive Koranic exegesis " is full of factual errors and leads to "barely concealed breeding ideas". Sarrazin designed "a demographic conflict on a global scale, a kind of eugenic world civil war". For Sarrazin denying the existence of an independent Islamic architectural culture, she writes: "Could a lifelong ban on access of for such nonsense Alhambra impose, it would be more than deserved." One must assume that "next racists will buy and rights also people this book, who have honest questions to Islam, which do not understand some things, maybe fear and find the worst of all answers here. "

According to Rainer Hermann from the FAZ , the book is “superficial”, intellectually a “disappointment” and reveals a “startling ignorance” of the author; For example, dates are inaccurate, Sarrazin confuses Alevis with Alawites and confuses secularism and secularism .

The Saarbrücker Zeitung also subjected several of Sarrazin's theses represented in the book to a fact check and came to the conclusion that the work was “teeming” with “untrue statements of fact”.

The law and Islamic scholar Mathias Rohe (criticized in the book) stated that the book was designed to “scare people”. For example, Sarrazin ignores data in his projections of the future proportion of Muslims in the population that show that the birth rate of Muslim immigrants will decrease in subsequent generations due to access to the education system. Furthermore, Sarrazin attributed behavior worthy of criticism to Islam, which - such as a wrong concept of honor - are however sometimes also practiced by members of non-Muslim religions.

In July 2019, the Arbitration Commission of the SPD district association Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf ruled that Sarrazin spread “anti-Muslim and cultural-racist statements” in the book. This damages the credibility of the SPD and does not have to be accepted by it. A party exclusion procedure is therefore permissible.

expenditure

Individual evidence

  1. ^ By Anne-Françoise Weber: Islam Debate of the 19th Century A Struggle for Tradition and Reform. Deutschlandfunkkultur April 18, 2018
  2. ↑ Liriam Sponholz: Religion as a medial conflict. Islam in the polemics of Thilo Sarrazin and Oriana Fallaci. In: Bultmann, C .; Linkenbach, A. (Ed.). Translate religions. Clichés and prejudices in the religious discourse. Münster: Aschendorff, 2015
  3. ↑ Sarrazin argues with the publisher - Richter promotes an agreement . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on August 18, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Hostile takeover . 2018, ISBN 978-3-95972-162-2 ( m-vg.de [accessed on August 18, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Thilo Sarrazin provokes with a new book on Islam . In: WEB.DE News . ( web.de [accessed on August 30, 2018]).
  6. ↑ Thilo Sarrazin: Random House admits false testimony . In: The world . July 31, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed August 18, 2018]).
  7. ^ Philip Plickert: Controversial book: Random House admits false testimony about Sarrazin . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 18, 2018]).
  8. ↑ "Hostile Takeover": Is This Religion Dangerous? .
  9. ↑ Ulrich von Schwerin: Review “Hostile Takeover”: Sarrazin's new book is ignorant and full of prejudices. www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de, August 31, 2018.
  10. ↑ Sonja Zekri: Thilo Sarrazin has struck again (title in the printed edition: Necessary like an Ebola outbreak ) www.tagesanzeiger.ch, August 31, 2018
  11. ^ Rainer Hermann: New Sarrazin book: Hair-raising about Islam. www.faz.net, August 30, 2018.
  12. ^ Eva Quadbeck, Henning Rasche, Lothar Schröder: Thilo Sarrazin in the fact check. www.saarbruecker-zeitung, August 30, 2018
  13. ↑ Erlangen's Islam expert considers Sarrazin book to be scary. www.nordbayern.de, August 30, 2018.
  14. ↑ Julian Schmidt-Farrent: Social Democrats throw Sarrazin out. In: taz of July 12, 2019, p. 2; Arbitration committee decides: SPD may expel Thilo Sarrazin from the party . focus .de , July 12, 2019.